Galactica
Clown Shoes in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.17
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Defender of the intergalactic downtrodden, conqueror of bad beers and long-winded evildoers, Galactica soars with ease from one star system to the next. Her dual-hop staff disperses justice, freedom, and intense hop flavor. Dry hopped with Galaxy Hops, this Double IPA balances a hop profile of light bitterness and notes of tropical fruit, citrus, and pine with a clean malt backbone.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Whole Foods P Street. Medium/dark golden with small, but dense head. Aroma is mild, citrus, hops, malts. Taste is more citrus, slightly tangy, getting dry towards the finish. Does not come across as imperial, its pretty damn smooth, I was even surprised to see it was 8% ABV. Easy drinker.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Mar 2018
at 19:54
7/10
Easy skate tonight.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2018
at 00:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Craft Brewed. Pours a clear gold with a finger of foam. Caramel, pine and grapefruit nose. Light peach aromas. Toasted caramel palate, sticky citrus. Balanced. Bitter, pithy and piney finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Galactica IPA on 30 Jan 2018 at 21:02 - Score: 7. Original review text: Caramel, pine and grapefruit nose. Light peach aromas. Toasted caramel palate, sticky citrus. Balanced. Bitter, pithy and piney finish.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2018
at 19:39
5/10
Tried
on 30 Dec 2017
at 12:17
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473ml can. Hazy amber with a large beige head. Aroma of tropical fruits, pine, orange marmalade, toffee. Taste of tropical fruits, pine, orange marmalade, toffee, sweet malt, bitter resinous finish. Medium body, smooth, fine carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Nov 2017
at 23:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Off white creamy head stayed well on a ruby red, still still body. Well balanced aroma - smells really smooth. Over ripe fruit, wood & orange. Medium to full bodied, oily, minimal carbonation & cloying. Heavy on the hops with bitter citrus, pith, sweet malt, red berries & a woody finish.
Tried
on 30 Sep 2017
at 14:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tall boy can from ABV. Pours a clear orange hue with a small white head. A light citrus fruity nose. Big sweet hops, fresh, oranges, resinous, almost IIIPA like sweet hops, light biscuit, bitterness. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2017
at 00:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Total Wine, South Richmond. Pours murky orange-brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is pine, resin, grapefruit, toast, licorice. Flavor is pine, grapefruit rind, resin. A bit of a sweetness in there that fades. It feels tired.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 20:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a semi-hazy amber color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a decent pace. Slight messy lace.
The aroma had some piney/resin bitterness playing with some sweet biscuits/somewhat like breadiness.
The flavor leaned into the malts with a sweet glance to pummel the hop tones down a little bit. Still, a nicely blended aftertaste running into the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a decent sipping quality as the ABV felt appropriate. Carbonation felt fine.
Overall, another one of those beers that I would say is an \"old school DIPA.\" I’d have again for me, but can understand why a ton of hopheads aren’t going to like this.
The aroma had some piney/resin bitterness playing with some sweet biscuits/somewhat like breadiness.
The flavor leaned into the malts with a sweet glance to pummel the hop tones down a little bit. Still, a nicely blended aftertaste running into the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a decent sipping quality as the ABV felt appropriate. Carbonation felt fine.
Overall, another one of those beers that I would say is an \"old school DIPA.\" I’d have again for me, but can understand why a ton of hopheads aren’t going to like this.
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2017
at 17:35